The Riches Options

[Dr Strum]

I've become quite addicted to this show. Just so great. It airs on FX Mondays at 2100 CT, if after this brief summary you're interested.

At the beginning, a man goes to a highschool reunion with his two daughters. He livens up the reunion entirely, getting everyone on the dance floor, getting people to talk, making speeches, etc, while his two daughters swipe wallets. Meanwhile his son out in the parking lot removes the stereos from cars. Why do they do this? For presents for the about-to-be-paroled mother of the children/wife of the man. They're a family of Travelers. The mother's named Dahlia, the father is Wayne, and the children are Cael, Di Di and Sam. They return to their clan for the Dahlia's "hooray you're out of prison" party, where it's found that the head of the clan promised Di Di for arranged marriage. Dahlia and Wayne go to confront him about this, at which point he beats the crap out of Wayne, and nearly his youngest son Sam. So, Wayne steals the entire lot of cash from the clan safe, and they flee. However, it's not long before the clan catches up to them. It's also not long before the clan causes another car to be forced off the road in their pursuit, and flees. Wayne and the rest of the family go to check on the accident; a newly married couple, the Riches, were killed in the accident. The couple was on their way to their new house, their house in a gated community where no one knew them beyond name, not even the real estate agent that sold them the house. The family decides to take over that life.


It's sooo much more complicated and interesting then I put it, but the paragraph is already getting kind of long. The show's really great, with fantastic acting and writing, great humor (though, admittedly, some of it is pretty dark), and one of the most interesting conflicts I've ever seen in a TV show. Check it out sometime, so that I might have someone with whom to talk about it.

[Rhiannon]

THAT CLIFFHANGER NOOOOOO

[Megaolix]

Interesting... I'll try t check it out.

[Rhiannon]

How could they do this... :(

[Dr Strum]

That was a pretty fucking huge cliff hanger.
There's like thirty different loose ends. :(